GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reverberate | reflect |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| environ | encircle |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |